Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one

I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by.

Trying to be funny is one of the hardest things on the planet. I think that's tough for everyone. If you're just naturally funny it's a hell of a lot easier.

Breaking up monotony is key to life and it doesn't matter whether I'm stacking shelves or writing songs, if I was doing the same thing every day I just couldn't take it.

The future's unwritten. It's what we make of it.

I don't have the desire to be the best standup in the UK but I do have the desire to be the best at everything else I do in terms of writing and acting.

With this kind of camera-phone madness we have got, moments are diluted into self-contained edited experiences.

While I was rapping I was always involved in youth work - I ran music workshops for teenagers and young offenders all the time and also ran a charity for refugee kids for a time.

I think the sensible thing would be to focus on one thing and be the best you can be at it. There is always that risk of spreading yourself too thin if you try to do too much.

I respect anyone who's honest to themselves and able to bring that into their work in an entertaining fashion.

I try not to make social consciousness a massive part of my music or comedy because I prefer to be an entertainer first and foremost, then do actual grassroots work when I can.

There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system...

What I saw there was my own death.

Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.

Always consider investing in a grade-A man with a grade-B idea. Never invest in a grade-B man with a grade-A idea.

While living I want to live well.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.

If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.